The Times decided to hunt down User Number 4417749, who searched for "numb fingers."

Yes, the Times, whose earlier coverage of the AOL privacy violation focused on AOL removing the data (and not, say, AOL putting the data up in the first place), managed to find Georgian widow Thelma Arnold. And they got a photo with her doggie.

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